Quotes About Safe Places

#1. We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word?

Sharon Stone

#2. Safe places exist only where people aren't.

Carrie Arcos

#3. Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

Mary Balogh

#4. Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

Alain De Botton

#5. We build the stories in our heads. We take words, and we give them power, and we look out through other eyes, and we see, and experience, what others see. I wonder, Are fictions safe places? And then I ask myself, Should they be safe places? There

Neil Gaiman

#6. The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.

Pat Conroy

#7. Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?

Robert Noyce

#8. Remember that there are only two safe places to store a gun: on your person, and in a locked, secured container.

Grant Cunningham

#9. It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live.

Graham Cooke

#10. We long for our churches to be safe places to doubt, to ask questions, and to tell the truth, even when it's uncomfortable.

Rachel Held Evans

#11. I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

Larry Page

#12. Jesus commanded His followers to go into "all the world" - not only into all "the safe places in the world,

Nik Ripken

#13. I wonder, Are fictions safe places? And then I ask myself, Should they be safe places?

Neil Gaiman

#14. Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football ... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.

Luke Salisbury

#15. He longed for a world where safe places for the weak and vulnerable were common, but that was not this world. Not right now.

S.D. Smith

#16. There's not really any safe places on the Internet.

Chad Hurley

#17. These places are time machines, spaceships, story-makers, secret-keepers. They are dragon-tamers, dream-catchers, fact-finders, and safe places. They are full of infinite possibilities and tales worth taking home.

Jen Campbell

#18. Bookshops are
time machines
spaceships
story-makers
secret-keepers
dragon-tamers
dream-catchers
fact-finders
& safe places.
(this book is for those who know this to be true)

Jen Campbell

#19. I blame my generation for having neglected to teach our children that in life there are no safe places, that safety is an illusion. "Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark," Baldwin said in an interview in 1961.

Azar Nafisi

#20. What kind of work would be done if Hercules took to spinning wool in safe places, while Omphales turned out to do battle with monsters in his stead? What kind of men should we have as the result of the exchange?

Eliza Lynn Linton

#21. I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?

Mark Batterson

#23. We all have our safe places, where none are invited. They are lonely rooms full of the musk of memory. Sanctuary rather than adventure.

Basith

#24. We made safe places in the apartment where you could go and not exist.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#25. Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me.

Margaret Cho

#26. Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories.

Maurice Sendak

#27. I think small animals can escape from many kinds of natural disaster more easily. There are just more places for them to hide, and more ways for them to find safe habitats. So this means that rats are set up to rule the Earth, but most of us already knew that. Now you know why.

Annalee Newitz

#28. I'd do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries. I've flown to places to surprise people, even if it was just for a day. I think it's so important to keep the romance alive and make sure the fun and spontaneity are there.

Brittany Murphy

#29. The pursuit of a kind of absolute safety, above all other considerations of what makes places good environments, has not only made those streets and cities less attractive, it has, in many cases, made them less safe.

Tom Vanderbilt

#30. Books had become a symbol of trust and libraries places of peace and stability. In all the chaos of the world that counted people as different levels of worthy, the Library served all equally. All genders, races, levels of ability. It was the one place they could all be safe, p195

Rachel Caine

#31. When sitting in an armchair isn't enough ... I write. What I mean is that when it no longer suffices to sit and dream about travelling to other times, other places, I write about them instead. A most economical and safe form of time travel.

Anna Belfrage

#32. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

Jeanette Winterson

#33. Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

Caitlin Flanagan

#34. It's deeply personal to watch actors go to those dark places. It can be scary, so you channel them all your love and energy, and you know you'll be safe on the other side.

Amy Ryan

#35. ... zebra crossings were rather like Bosnia's "safe zones": places where, if you die, you may simply die with the knowledge that your killer was in the wrong.

Lucy Wadham

#36. The places where we went, it was not safe to be any bigger than a two-person crew. In Afghanistan, the only way for us to operate was to try to fly under the radar of everyone.

Rick Rowley

#37. You don't get to turn someone's sanctuary into an unsafe space.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#38. Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.

Gordon Brown

#39. This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest, hang forever in the void, safe and cold and alone.

Neil Gaiman

#40. We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles.

Jaime Preciado

#41. It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

Joan Didion

#42. By then the streets are empty and quiet, night about to fall, curfew about to come down like a giant warm embrace, keeping us all in our places, keeping us all safe.

Lauren Oliver

#43. Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#44. We are fighting to make those dear old places where
we had played as children, safe for other boys and girls--fighting for the preservation and safety of all sweet, wholesome things.

L.M. Montgomery

#45. For so many years, Lumikki had needed to find hiding places because she was afraid. Finding secret nooks and safe havens was a lifeline. These days, it wasn't so much about fear as a desire to find some room just for her in a place that was shared by everyone.

Salla Simukka

#46. Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and hold fast, and our drive to flee, to run - from danger, toward new places to feed ourselves.

Deb Caletti

#47. In isolated or country places no man's life is safe.

John White Geary

#48. There were only a few dark places in her safe, secure world

Eliza Maxwell

#49. Life is too short to be safe and sit still and do nothing. Unless of course that is what God has for you to do in a particular place in your life.

Mary Engelbreit

#50. The True's towns, with colorful names like Dry Bend, Jerusalem's Lot, Oree, and Sidewinder, were safe havens, but they never stayed in those places for long; mostly they were migratory.

Stephen King

#51. I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.

Lateefah Simon

#52. In a fairy tale, the story can't be altered. The prince and princess will never have a fight. You'll never hear the queen raise her voice. No on ever gets sick; no one ever gets hurt. Maybe love is only safe in places where it can't change.

Jodi Picoult

#53. For the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

Alice Foote MacDougall